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bug#41185: highlight-regexp not working properly for multiline-matching
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#41185: highlight-regexp not working properly for multiline-matching regexps |
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Date: |
Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:11:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> I think you must read the original report further, where there is a text
> example with "endif" for that highlighting fails. AFAICT the complaint
> is about multi-line matches not being highlighted.
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> I think `highlight-regexp' is not able to highlight multiline
> stuff, but the docstring doesn't tell anything about this.
It is being highlit, but not reliably, I see. If you paste the test
cases in, they are highlit, but not if you type them in (or paste them
in in steps)...
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